Singapore, April 9 -- Researchers from the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS), together with collaborators from South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and India, have assembled the world's first Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA)-a multi national survey of human blood at single-cell resolution.

The landmark study, published in the scientific journal Cell in March 2025, has the potential to advance Precision Medicine and empower the development of next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics tailored specifically for Asian populations.

The A*STAR GIS-led AIDA consortium profiled the healthy immune systems of diverse Asian populations. Using advanced single-cell genomics methods, the researchers analysed over 1.2 million immune cel...